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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "From Mercy & Paul Jones" <mercyjonesfamily10@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 01:21:15 -0000
Subject: Greetings From Mercy & Paul Jones




Dearest,


I pray that this message meet you in good state of health and may almighty
be with you and your family .
Mysteries has gone in my life. Life has become restless for me in this
western part of Africa. 29th September 2010 later in the night the murders
come without a pity without a mercy they kill my father in front of me.


My father was a wealthy merchant.The trouble began early last year when my
father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper
accounts of all the tons of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in
some villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2010 when they
discovered a very big some of money my father deposited with one of
leading Financial Institution here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.


As a result of this discovery and the enviness of the money ,he was killed
by his associates.Before this, he revealed to me the reasons of his being
hatred.He directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit, he
told me that he enrolled my name as his next of kin for the deposit, being
the only Daughter. He advised me that I should not stay in the country
because his enemies might equally kill me to reap all his wealth hence my
mother died five years ago of cancer.


He instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner
who will help me to transfer the money into the person's account and the
person will help me to invest the money in his or her country. My father
finally died on 29th of September and since then I was out of school and
went into hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant
documents of the $18.5 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars)
that was deposited in a Financial Institution are intact with me now.


My name is Mercy Jones, I am a student with my brother Paul Jones. Please
I would require your urgent assistance so that I can move out from here
before they kill me as they are tracing my hide out.I agreed to give you
20% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this fund from the
Financial Institution and transfer this money into your account for onward
investment in your country.


Please contact me immediately with my E-mail address and include your
telephone and Fax numbers in your response to enable me send you all
necessary details as regards to the procedure of securing the fund out
from the Financial Institution and transferring the fund to your end
account.
Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I'm waiting for your urgent reply .
Best regards,
Mercy & Paul

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